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Assembling a genome is not unlike assembling a puzzle. As sequencing technologies continue to advance, genomic puzzles are becoming easier to put together. That’s facilitating the sequencing of many different animal species, some already common to the lab and others much more novel.
A unique paradigm to investigate the intersection between memory, pain, and stress reveals new details about the processes that underlie pain memory. In both mice and men, males seem more susceptible.